Show X xa at fillmor o at am a m in on saturday saturdays february fth ot of pleurisy and and lung fever AMASA al LYMAN deceased was bom bo rn in tha the township ot of lyman grafton county new hampshire march barch aoth 1813 he tie was the son of koswell lyman and martha nartha mason at TT iden idea tra county U feb eeb feb ard 3rd 1677 of WILLI WILL lol iol 01 son sen deceased was a son of roswell ardd arid sib bell beli sp 8 pencer stevens was born october 1799 HOT in herkimer horkimer herkimer co cog 9 new york moved with his parents in 1801 into iho tho frontier of upper canadas canada on grand river where the tho town of Drant brantford ford rord sprang up subsequently his father moved to one fork of grand river kiver where ho he bought a sawmill saw mill and made improvements upon it and was extensively engaged in the lumber bu business sintas for some six years falling failing to meet his last payments in uil lull f on the mill property P perty he lost the whole concern from 1807 to 1818 he moved about from froin place to place reever he be could get work at his trade IQ 1812 he was in the war as a master mechanic mechanics and in 1819 he moved to mount blount pleasant about six miles milea from grand river kiver where william grew to manhood and married september 2 1827 marinda thomas their six eldest children were born there he first heard the goepel gospel preached by joseph smith and didney fidney bigdon la in mount pleasant 1835 in june of the next year he embraced the truth and was wai baptized by elder john P greene he was wasa a farmey farmer he mas was the eldest son of his I 1 fathers ramil famil family and the care of the family rested upon amin him in tha the absence of his father who was from home much of his time following his trade in 1837 he sold out his landed improvements and on thead the id ot of august started to gather with the saints in missouri but when he reached hancook hancock county illinois on account of sickness in his family and the lateness ot of the season he be was as compelled to stop which he did in I 1 1839 the saints were driven out of missouri Mise Mis ouri ourt and settled along the mississippi in commerce e and other places and some settled in 1 four miles of where he be was living ho he burled buried two children and bad five born in hancock county ill ili in oct 1845 he moved into nauvoo and spent the winter and in la june 1816 with a scanty outfit ho he started west and found the camp of the saints at council bluffs where be he had one child born be he buried burled there his father ats ter tor wife and three children chil ebil drenA on the day 0 of june 1850 ho he started westward again arriving g in salt bait lake city october ard 3rd ot of the tame year camped on an uha tha jordan soc tor a sew lew days aster alter which ha he moved and camped on the bottoms at Amerl ameri american amerlean can car fork For eor kroca klora lor roc a new lew weeks but finally built bulit a log house in the fort at pleasant t grow grol 0 roye and wintered thero there la in the spring of 1851 bo he moved from gha tha fort to ha his farm farms between pleasant pheasant grove and american fork forks where he be llred ifred till tho the fall of or 1853 when the indian troubles drove hm bm into pleasant grove where whore he had bad but just rebuilt his house when a call was made upon him and others to move south to strengthen streng then thea the settlements tle lle ments IB iron county in november of that cama camo fall be he gathered up his effects and went south at the request of president george A smith he stopped at fillmore miliard bullard co Coi where he went into the canyon hauled out logs and built a house into which he be moved on christmas day and I 1 spent the balance ot of the winter in the rort fort at fillmore vasa as a defenso defense against the indians in tho the spring of 1855 lum he be was called tailed by prest john A ray with ni nine ne other famil ramil families lesy to bulia a rord ford arll aril and sett settle settie I 1 oon on pioneer creek creeks in millard county with the vew view 0 of taking care of all the stock in the cr county anty they commenced to haul r rock ock and to make preparation to build the rort tort where it was discovered thattie water was falling hence they all ail moved to cedar springs where whore they built a fort that same season where bince since has spranz up the flourishing and beautiful town of 0 holden bolden where he be lived the his bis life he was nver ever to minister to the wants ol 01 the needy he was lifland life iko and ana cumulated accumulated ae seme bome beani which he liberally used for the bent beat benefit fit of the church of jesus christ ot of latter da day saints his property he equally divided divide among his seven surviving childrens with written instructions to each ot of them to use it northe forthe ron tor the education of his grandchildren coit colt I 1 |